A new salary schedule carrying increases averaging 6.5 to 7 percent for the 800 teachers in the Great Falls public school system was approved Monday night by trustees of District 1 following weeks of negotiation and acceptance by the Great Falls Teachers’’ Association. The new scale takes effect July 1 for the 1968-69 school year and raises the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree from $5,600 a year to $6,000. At the other end of the scale the figure goes from $10,200 a year to $10,950 for a teacher with a master’s degree, at least 45 quarter hours of additional graduate study and 14 years experience or more in the Great Falls system.

WASHINGTON — Someday in the near future a person will be accidentally killed on an American street and in his pocket will be found a last gift to the living in the form of a small printed card. “This is to certify,” the card will say, “that I, Jon Doe, hereby donate my body…” The card will authorize the attending physicians to take the deceased person’s vital organs and his eyes, arteries and other tissues that are usable as transplants to replace diseased organs in living persons. The card is a key feature of a model law that will be formally recommended to the states next year in an effort to update American law which has fallen so far behind scientific developments that the law now threatens to deny Americans the full benefits of the latest medical advances.

Of the five people consulted for the Tribune’s “Minute Interview” question, “Is Earth getting warmer?” only A.G. Nelson replied in the negative saying, “I don’t think I could. It varies all over the place. It’s as warm now as when I was a kid – or as cold depending on how you look at it.” George MacDonald replied, “I’ve lived here all my life in Montana and Alberta, and I think this country is becoming warmer generally speaking. Fifty-some years ago, it was a little colder than now. Geraldine McLaughlin agreed saying, “Right here, the air is becoming warmer. I think it has changed a lot in this area.” “Judging by the last three weeks, I’d say it isn’t becoming warmer, but this last summer was definitely warmer,” said Mrs. Donald Luther, and Linda Davies answered, “It is probably true. I believe I heard scientists say the earth is becoming warmer, and I’m inclined to agree with them.”

NEW YORK — Carl Yastrzemski, in the spotlight most of last summer while powering the underdog Boston Red Sox to the American League pennant, was named Male Athlete of the Year for 1967 by an overwhelming margin Wednesday in the annual Associated Press poll. John Unitas of the Baltimore Colts, the National Football League’s MVP, placed second, and Jim Ryun, who broke his own record for the mile run, was third. Next in order came pro golf star Jack Nicklaus; O.J. Simpson, ace halfback of Southern California’s national champion college football team; and Lew Alcindor the 7-foot-1 ½ center who led UCLA to the national college basketball title.

Allyn A. (Sonny Holland) Monday night resigned as varsity football coach at C.M. Russell High School to join the staff of Jim Sweeney at Washington State University at Pullman. At Washington State Holland will be working again with the man under whom he served as assistant coach at Montana State University. Holland became coach at CMR last fall after serving as interim coach of Great Falls High School while Gene Carlson was on a sabbatical leave of absence. Dr. Harold Wenaas, District 1 superintendent said a replacement will be named soon.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said Wednesday conversations with President Johnson have convinced him the U.S. will not permit the pursuit of Communist forces from South Vietnam into neutral Cambodia. “It would be tragedy compounded on tragedy,” the Montana senator said in an interview. “I commend the President for his unyielding attitude in that respect.” Mansfield said he believes the President has been subject to very strong pressures to authorize troop crossing into Cambodia and perhaps into North Viet Nam. But he said he believes Johnson will resist either step.

What are clean hands and faces of its employees worth to an employing corporation? One finds an interesting answer to the problem in the practice of the B.&M. smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. That company, from its actual experience, has developed the fact that it is worth at least $30,000 a year to it for its employees at the B.&M., ranging in number from 1,200 to 1,500, to be able to go to their homes with clean hands and faces. That means that it is paying an average of better than $20 a year to give each employee that privilege, or about six cents a day per employee. The cost stated does not include soap and towels for the employee, that being furnished individually. The service which the company gives to the men includes large and commodious change houses with steel lockers, the wash basins being large and enameled and long enough so that seven men can wash at one time on each side of each basin, each man having a water tap for his individual service.

BUTTE — The teaching of German in the public schools of Butte will continue until there is an expression from the U.S. government on the subject. Such was the decision reached at tonight’s meeting of the school board, after some discussion as to the advisability of following the action of the school board of Los Angeles which has eliminated the teaching of German from the curriculum. In making a motion to that effect Fred Furman said, “We should let the matter stand as it is now. But I am personally in favor, if the German language is still taught in our schools, to add a course of instruction in Apache and Yaqui. Certainly if we keep on teaching the language of the savage, we should include a few more.”

About 8 Friday night a man who said he represented the Imperial Grocery Company rang the telephone of the business office of The Tribune and asked if it was then too late to make a slight addition to the advertisement, copy for which had been received earlier in the day. The clerk at The Tribune end of the conversation then took down the words requested which were, “Our 1918 calendars are now out – call and get one.” As a result the line appeared prominently, as directed. It transpired yesterday morning that the person who telephoned the message was not an authorized representative of the Imperial Company, but was, in fact, a deliberate and cheap liar. The company, like most other concerns, has not calendars for distribution, as there is a great shortage in calendars this year.

Lieut. J. M. Donaldson of the British recruiting mission learned yesterday that from now on the branches of service open to the recruits in the British army will include the work of “tank drivers.” This ought to get the recruit into sufficiently active service to make it attractive if the chance to get into the thickest of the fight is what one is looking for. “The best information that I have received lately for the boys is that there will be recruits received for the tank corps from now on, so that those hunting for real excitement ought not hold back longer” said Lieut. Donaldson.

For the first time since the U.S. government took over the railroads, Great Falls felt the effect of the control last night. It came in the fact that a baggage car was taken off the Burlington passenger train running between Billings and Great Falls. The train was carrying two baggage cars when it pulled into Billings, and both were heavily loaded. A U.S. commissioner ordered one of them cut out because of the excessive load, so that the train could make its schedule. This brought a show troupe to the city to open at the Palace Theater tonight without any of its scenery or costumes.